The contractor team working on the Curtis renovation has encountered a few challenges that will delay the completion of Phase 1, pushing the timeline to completion to December 2025. As a result of this delay, the sequence of phases will also need to be adjusted.The new Phase 2 details are:

Phase 2 (Faces Tarratine Street)
Timeline: December 15, 2025 (following final exams) – August 7, 2026
Offices/Spaces Out of Service: Curtis Front Desk Area, Regimental Offices, Residential Life Offices, Student Activities Office, Wedge Office
Student Rooms Off-line: 201-224, 301-324, 401-424 (72 Total Rooms)

For the Fall 2025 semester, all rooms and spaces currently closed will remain off-line. Students assigned to Phase 2 rooms for the fall semester will need to pack up their belongings and move out of their rooms before leaving for winter break. The best-case scenario is that Phase 1 rooms will be ready before the end of the fall semester, allowing students to move into a Phase 1 room. In the worst-case scenario, Phase 1 rooms will not be available until after winter break begins. In which case students will need to store their belongings in summer storage closets over the winter break and move into their new room when they return in January of 2026.

As we move forward through this semester and into the summer, Residential Life will provide continual updates on this page and will email all Curtis Hall residents with the latest information.

Residence Life would like to extend a sincere thank you to the students who were assigned to Phase 1 rooms for the fall semester and needed to move out before Winter Break, as well as to those who were consolidated into new rooms. Both processes went smoothly, thanks to the students’ positive attitudes and cooperation.

As Phase 1 progresses, we would like to remind students with vehicles on campus about the changes to parking behind Curtis Hall. Please be sure to pay attention to the signage to avoid parking in faculty/staff spaces, which will result in a parking ticket. The Practice Field Parking Lot has plenty of available parking, so please take advantage of it.

Looking ahead to the 2025-2026 academic year, Phase 2 will be underway during the fall semester, with Phase 3 beginning in December 2025 (after students depart for Winter Break) and continuing through the spring semester. This will require students in Phase 3 rooms during the fall semester to pack up their belongings before Winter Break, as they will be moving into new rooms upon their return in January 2026. Residence Life will provide moving boxes, and on-campus storage will be available for students’ belongings over Winter Break.

In the coming weeks, Residence Life will hold Housing Selection information sessions and strongly encourage students to attend one of these sessions. These sessions will help students understand the housing selection process and provide insights into how the renovation will impact the Curtis Hall community for the 2025-2026 academic year. They will also provide an opportunity for students to ask any questions they may have.

This Curtis Hall Floor Plan shows the affected rooms in Phases 2 and 3, including which rooms will be triples.

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As you are hopefully aware from the email you received from Residential Life on October 30, the room you currently live in will be converted to a triple room during the 2023 Winter Break in preparation for the 2024-2025 academic year Curtis Hall renovation project. While the room will remain a double for the spring 2024 semester, over the Winter Break the current furniture in your room will be removed and three sets of new furniture will be moved in.

What does this mean for you? Please carefully read this email to find out.

• To accommodate the removal of the current metal furniture and the installation of the new furniture, you will need to fully pack up your room before departing campus in December for Winter Break.
• Residential Life has purchased cardboard moving boxes which are at the front desk for your use. Just stop by and pick some up if you need them.
• Once personal belongings are packed up, you will be able to store them in the Summer Storage Closets throughout Curtis over Winter Break.
• Please label your boxes with your name and room number to keep things organized.
• To gain access to the Summer Storage Closets, stop by the Curtis Hall Front Desk between the hours of 7PM-11PM, and the RA working can assist you. If you need access outside of those hours, please contact your RA, or stop by Dan Gardner’s office.
• Please be sure and check all your desk and wardrobe drawers, under your bed, on top of your wardrobe, etc. for your belongings as MMA is not liable for personal items you leave behind which then get removed along with the furniture.
• Due to the limited timeframe to remove, and then install furniture before students return from Winter Break, if you fail to pack and store your personal belongings before leaving for Winter Break, you will be charged a fine of $500 due to the staff that will be pulled from furniture set up to pack your personal belongings.

Information For Winter Sports Student-Athletes:

• Athletes in impacted rooms who are returning early from Winter Break will not have furniture in their room. The new triple furniture will not arrive until January 3 and will take a few days to unload and set up.
• Rachael Cotoni, Director of Conferences and Events will work with your coach(s) to make available Leavitt Hall rooms until your room has been set up with the new furniture.

We encourage you to stay informed with up-to-date information posted on the Curtis Hall Renovation Website. A comprehensive list of impacted rooms can be found here including the renovation time frame and changes to housing policies.

If you have questions, please stop by and see us.

As was announced at the Curtis Hall renovation informational meeting held on September 19th, Curtis Hall will undergo a four-phase renovation project with prep-work and staging of supplies and materials starting in the Spring 2024 semester and the physical renovation work beginning at the conclusion of the spring semester.

During each phase of work, all the bedrooms within that phase will be offline and will not be able to be lived in. To accommodate the offline rooms, Residential Life will need to turn double rooms in other areas of the building into triple rooms.

If your current room number is below than it will be a triple room for the 2024-2025 academic year.

Below is important information you need to be aware of. Please thoroughly read this email so you are aware of what is coming down the pike and what is expected of you.

• The metal furniture, which is in most rooms in Curtis, is not able to be tripled. Over Winter Break, the metal furniture in your room will be removed and will be replaced with new wooden triple furniture.
• To accommodate the removal of the current metal furniture and the installation of the new wooden furniture, you will need to fully pack up your room before departing campus in December for Winter Break. 
• Residential Life has purchased cardboard moving boxes which you can use to pack your belongings in if needed, and you will be able to store items in the summer storage lockers as well as a few other storage spaces within Curtis over the Winter Break.
• Residential Life strongly encourages you to take some time ahead of Thanksgiving Break to look over your belongings and see what items you might be able to take home with you at Thanksgiving Break to make packing up your room a little easier come December.

Important Note: Your room will not be used to house three students in it during this academic year (2023-2024), but it will have three sets of furniture in it when you return to campus in January in preparation for the Fall 2024 semester.

Residential Life will hold informational and Q&A sessions on the days and times listed below and we strongly encourage you to attend one of these so you are fully clear on what is coming up and what you need to do, and so we are able to answer questions you may have.

• Sunday, November 5 at 8PM in the 1954 Room in Alfond
• Wednesday, November 8 at 8PM in the 1954 Room in Alfond

A Zoom option for both sessions is available and was provided to those impacted via email on Oct 30. If you need the link, please email housing@mma.edu.

We look forward to seeing you either in person or virtually for one of these meetings.

Sincerely,

Residential Life

Initially Impacted Room #s:

***TEMPORARY*** adjustment to housing policy during renovation phase only – We will move to a 4-semester requirement for on-campus living. So students who are in their third semester now will be eligible to live off-campus in the Fall of 2024. We will return to the policy of 6 semesters or 21 for Fall of 2026.

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